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Sarah ScireFebruary 3, 2020

BuzzFeed News is recruiting teenagers to make election-themed TikTok and Instagram videos

Three teens will be crowned ambassadors: “I feel it’s really important to pass the mic to them.”

Hanaa' TameezJanuary 30, 2020

Maybe greater transparency can increase trust in news — but readers have to find your transparency first

A “Behind the Story” explanation box attached to a news story sounds good in theory — but in practice, most people skip right over it.

Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 24, 2020

Republicans and Democrats live in “nearly inverse news media environments,” Pew finds

“In the more compact Republican media ecosystem, one outlet towers above all others: Fox News. It would be hard to overstate its connection as a trusted go-to source of political news for Republicans.”

Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 24, 2020

The Wuhan coronavirus is the latest front for medical misinformation. How will China handle it?

Plus: Facebook allows “rampant climate denialism” around the Australian wildfires, and female politicians in India face a disproportionate amount of trolling.

Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 17, 2020

Instagram is busy fact-checking memes and rainbow hills while leaving political lies alone

Plus: Emphasizing a publisher’s name on social doesn’t seem to impact readers’ misinfo radar much one way or the other.

Denise-Marie OrdwayJanuary 10, 2020

“Rated false”: Here’s the most interesting new research on fake news and fact-checking

Journalist’s Resource sifts through the academic journals so you don’t have to. Here they collect the best of 2019, including research into the effectiveness of fact-checking, why people are susceptible to fake news, and the changing volume of misinformation on social media.

Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 10, 2020

“Warts and all”: Facebook will continue to allow politicians to lie in their ads

Plus: YouTube would radicalize even without its algorithm, Reddit bans fakes both deep and cheap, and Facebook will let you dial down political ads.

Facebook bans deepfakes, but lots of other manipulated videos are still allowed

Laura Hazard OwenDecember 13, 2019

People who are given correct information still misremember it to fit their own beliefs

Plus: “There is no bygone era of a well-informed, attentive public. What we have had in lieu of a well-informed citizenry is what might be termed a ‘load-bearing’ myth — the myth of the attentive public.”

Men and white people believe the news is less reliable now than it was in the past. Women and people of color think it’s gotten more reliable.

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